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Four months after Boston Mayor Marty Walsh teased a “road trip” to Washington with the governor, he and Charlie Baker headed to DC this week to pressure Congress and the Trump administration to invest in housing, transportation, and the environment.
The... Read more

Brig. Gen. John J. Driscoll, commander of the Massachusetts Army National Guard, will be the featured speaker at Dorchester’s observation of Memorial Day on Mon., May 27. The events begin with a procession of veterans and musical units from the John P.... Read more

After a decades-long search, the Josiah Quincy Upper School seems to have finally found a permanent site in Boston’s Chinatown neighborhood.
In an op-ed in Sampan, Boston’s bilingual Chinese-English newspaper, Mayor Marty Walsh announced last week that... Read more

Franklin Park will host its annual Bike and Kite Festival this Saturday (May 18) from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Boston tradition, which has grown to attract crowds of more than 1,000 people to the Playstead Field where... Read more

Outkast Electrical Contractors, a 35-employee, Dorchester-based company, has joined IBEW Local 103. The partnership brings a well-respected, minority-owned business into the Dorchester-based union.
Founded and operated by cousins Paul Gray, president,... Read more

About 70 people gathered at a Mattapan public meeting on Monday to get an overview of a now-imminent public works project aimed at improving safety and flow at the notoriously dangerous intersection of Morton Street and Gallivan Boulevard.
Construction... Read more

The cost to replace all outdated equipment and infrastructure across the MBTA system with modern alternatives is about $2.8 billion more than the previous state-of-good-repair price estimate, officials said this week.
In 2015, the cost of addressing the... Read more

As Boston Police districts in Dorchester and South Boston begin training with new body cameras, efforts to address spikes in violence and the resulting long-term trauma are ongoing at the city and local level.
City Council President Andrea Campbell is... Read more

An online lottery system will replace the current “first-come, first-served” enrollment protocol for the Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity (METCO) program. The plan, which was approved on April 30 by the state’s Education Department, will... Read more

The statewide non-profit organization Massachusetts Preservation presented the Dorchester Historical Society (DHS) with an award last week for its restoration of the William Clapp and Lemuel Clap houses, a process that began in 2015 and was completed last... Read more

The Vănguard Retrospective Exhibition, currently on display at the Dorchester Art Project, is what co-founder and Fields Corner resident Khanh “Aiden” Nguyen considers to be “the epicenter of queer Vietnamese art.”
Nguyen, who was born in Vietnam but... Read more

While every one of the 147 cities and towns that make up Greater Boston has seen a spike in residents of color over the last generation, a new report uncovered certain population shifts within Boston neighborhoods that likely mirror the routes that... Read more

City Councillor Frank Baker lent a hand to members of the Dorchester Park Association and representatives of the Armenia Tree Project in a tree-planting ceremony Tuesday morning in Dorchester Park.
The event commemorated the 25th anniversary of the... Read more

Dr. Sherry Penney, who led UMass Boston as its longest-serving chancellor from 1988-2000, died last Friday alongside her 88-year-old husband in what is believed to have been an accidental carbon monoxide poisoning in their Florida home. She was 81.
Dr.... Read more

It’s a cornucopia of vintage dishware, eclectic clothing, trinkets, and furniture, and wooden skis laid out across a lawn. People wander up and down the hills of the neighborhood’s streets with paintings tucked beneath their arms and books in hand as the... Read more

MBTA officials remained tight-lipped this week about the exact reasons for an expected delay in the rollout of an all-electronic fare collection system that T officials initially planned to have in place by 2021.
General Manager Steve Poftak told the... Read more

The state’s $1 million investment toward finding a way to prevent ticks from spreading Lyme disease is paying off, a UMass Medical School researcher said last week, and an additional investment could move an antibody proven in labs to protect mice against... Read more

Some Massachusetts community health centers are “essentially one snowstorm away from having challenges making payroll,” an expert on the industry’s finances said during a State House hearing last Wednesday.
Leaders from community health centers seeking... Read more

Mayor Martin Walsh, state Rep. Dan Cullinane, and state Sen. Nick Collins were on hand Tuesday morning adjacent to The Boston Home to celebrate the opening of Harmon Apartments, an $18.7 million development that will provide 36 fully accessible mixed-... Read more

Her approach: ‘Being out, and very present, to learn’
The newly selected superintendent of the Boston Public Schools, Brenda Cassellius, plans to be ready to dive deep into the community when she takes over the 54,000-student district on July 1. And... Read more